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Bob Bennett: Well, does that mean we no longer need to provide funding for diet, nutrition and obesity research at the Pennington…

On the recordApril 7, 2004
Well, does that mean we no longer need to provide funding for diet, nutrition and obesity research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center or Pierce's Disease research in California or Sudden Oak Disease research in Maryland?
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Bob Bennett
Republican · Utah
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Apr 7, 2004

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the termination of specific research projects due to budget cuts.

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